I haven't seen you for a long time. I'd like to talk to you about
several things. When I'm finished, if you have any questions you can ask
them, and I'll take this opportunity to answer you.

I'll mainly talk about three things. The first one is that everyone
should make a priority of Fa-study. I've said this to you often. But what
I'll talk about today is different. I'm going to tell you the larger
reasons. It is extremely important for every Dafa disciple to study the Fa
well. This is because you are very different from any cultivation method
in the past and from the cultivators in the past, for your missions are
great. The Fa of the cosmos is being taught here--who would come to listen
to the Fa? And what would those beings who would listen to the Fa do? All
these things have greater significance. I've said that Dafa disciples are
magnificent. In fact, the responsibilities you shoulder are quite large.
You only know that some students made pacts with me in the past. When the
truth is, there are a lot of other students who came from other cosmic
colossal firmaments that are extremely distant and extremely vast, and
they came to establish a karmic relationship. And there are also some
people who entered while Dafa was being spread this time, because the door
has been wide open and a lot of people with fairly good inborn quality
have entered, too. So, these are the three categories our Dafa disciples
mainly belong to.

Think about it, why did beings from distant cosmic bodies come here?
Because Fa-rectification was going to take place in the cosmos, and they
are representatives of the extremely massive groups of beings in distant
cosmic bodies and colossal firmaments; they came here to establish a
karmic relationship with Master so as to ensure that in Fa-rectification
they wouldn't be left outamidst the
reconstruction of the entire cosmos; their goal was to allow the sentient
beings there to be saved. Massive, countless groups of beings are over
there. Those people who were able to sign pacts with me don't have simple
backgrounds, either--they also came from huge cosmic bodies. If their
levels were really high, think about it, don't they, too, represent
gigantic cosmic bodies? There are also some who are students that entered
while the Fa was being spread this time, and most of them came from really
high levels, too.

What I just talked about is who has come to listen to the Fa. If people
like this have come to listen to the Fa, then think about it, doesn't
every Dafa disciple represent a different gigantic cosmic body? If that's
the case, doesn't whether a Dafa disciple cultivates well or poorly
determine whether those gigantic cosmic bodies' beings get saved or not? I
can tell you, this is definitely the case.

The reason is, that gigantic cosmic body is below you, it's almost like
your body, because that's how gigantic you are. There are countless
sentient beings and countless cosmic firmaments inside there. Your
cultivation determines whether those gigantic groups of beings are good or
bad, and whether they can be kept or not! Looked at from a microcosmic
level, your human body that's manifest in the human world is actually a
gigantic system, too. As you cultivate, first this part of your body gets
healed and stays healthy, and then it gradually transforms into
high-energy matter. The changes at the surface might not be large. During
the Fa-rectification, the cosmos is making breakthroughs from the
microcosm toward the surface; and during their cultivation, Dafa disciples
are changing from the microcosm toward the surface, too. As you cultivate,
your bodies in the microcosm make rapid breakthroughs in levels. And in
their cultivation the bodies of the vast majority of our students don't
have much left at the surface anymore. The higher your level, the more
you're responsible for. The higher your level, the more gigantic the
cosmic body and the more the sentient beings you represent, and you will
be responsible for that domain. In other words, as you go on cultivating,
your human body keeps improving and becomes better and better, and at the
same time it transforms into the body of a God. If you don't cultivate
well, as you've seen, the changes in the body at the surface are rather
small. In other words, the gigantic cosmic body you represent is the same
as your body--it corresponds to your body. Then perhaps many beings won't
be saved because you didn't cultivate well--it's because you
haven't cultivated well that they can't become good. Your not getting rid
of a lot of attachments interferes with them, and they, in turn, are also
interfering with you.

I've often said that you need to study the Fa well. Whenever I've met
with students at Fa conferences or in other settings, I've always said
that you must make Fa-study a priority, and that no matter how busy you
are you have to study the Fa. At that time I couldn't tell you things at a
level this profound, and I couldn't reveal this. But after this
tribulation you're now able to understand the Fa more deeply, and you've
become more mature in your cultivation and in validating the Fa. Today I
can tell you this: your cultivation is absolutely not a personal, simple
matter of reaching Consummation--your cultivation is saving the countless
sentient beings in the cosmic body that corresponds to you and who've put
infinite hope in you. The cultivation of you all is saving the sentient
beings in every single gigantic cosmic colossal firmament.

Why do I say that Dafa disciples are different from the cultivators of
the past? I say that Dafa disciples are magnificent, but only if you've
cultivated really well is your Consummation truly magnificent. A Dafa
disciple's Consummation isn't just about an ordinary being breaking out of
the Three Realms. Think about it, when you cultivate well few beings in
the gigantic cosmos turn bad and few of them get weeded out. And when you
return, they will truly regard you as their Lord, their King, and have
boundless reverence for you, because you saved them, you sacrificed for
them, and you gave them everything they have. But if you don't cultivate
well, many beings will be weeded out since we can't not weed out beings
who are no longer salvageable. Why is that? During this persecution,
beings in different dimensions are all playing a role, whether they're
good beings or bad beings. The bad beings are interfering with the Fa-rectification,
persecuting our students, and at the same time they're interfering with
you. So you must eliminate them with utter seriousness. If you don't
cultivate well, many beings will be weeded out, and when you reach
Consummation, when you return to your place, you'll find that an extremely
large number of beings who at one time put infinite hope in you have been
weeded out. Then in this cosmic colossal firmament, it's very possible
that the cosmic bodies you represent will be in a broken and incomplete
state, and countless sentient beings will have been weeded out.

You know, a lot of students haven't understood things clearly during
this persecution and have considered it an ordinary human persecution
against human beings. In fact, this persecution is entirely an
unprecedented evil test of Dafa disciples that was arranged by the old
forces. And they don't let the evil beings that are being used know the
true situation--they are truly doing damage. Although I don't acknowledge
any of these arrangements, they have done these things, after all. I don't
acknowledge any of the things they've arranged in history, and during the
Fa-rectification I'm completely opposing them. So amidst this persecution
of sentient beings we need to clarify the truth to people, and at the same
time cultivate ourselves well and eliminate the evil with righteous
thoughts. Although we don't acknowledge anything of theirs, their
malicious slander during this persecution has poisoned the minds of
countless sentient beings.

If the vast majority of the people in this world today have really come
from high levels to obtain the Fa, think about it--they aren't just some
simple beings, then. Even a Tathagata represents a gigantic group of
beings. But they aren't limited to Tathagatas--those who've come to the
human world all have great abilities. Many cosmic bodies' Kings and Lords
have come here, and they represent gigantic cosmic bodies. But after
coming to the ordinary human society, they became deluded and have even
participated in this persecution of Dafa. Then if someone like that is
eliminated, think about it, not only is he eliminated--what's
eliminated is also a gigantic cosmic body.

I've said that Dafa disciples are remarkable. In the midst of such a
severe persecution, you're still clarifying the truth to the world's
people and saving sentient beings. The beings that you're saving, think
about it, are they just ordinary human beings? If they really correspond
to gigantic cosmic bodies, then when you clarify the truth to one of them
you're rescuing a gigantic cosmic body, a gigantic group of beings, and
you are rescuing a Lord, or a King. I'd say, aren't Dafa disciples
magnificent? The things Dafa disciples are met with are all really
significant. People in the past talked about saving sentient beings; those
who were being saved were only trivial human beings, ordinary human
beings. They weren't worthy of being saved by Dafa disciples--it didn't
need to be done by my Dafa disciples. The things you do are all pretty
significant. During today's persecution, if an ordinary, everyday person
can say to another person, "Don't persecute Falun Gong, Falun Gong is
good," and as a result that person doesn't persecute Dafa disciples, and
in the future he even has the opportunity to remain and obtain the Fa, if
he came down from a high level to obtain the Fa, then his cultivation will
be rapid. Then think about it, his Consummation will be the Consummation
of an enormous group of beings, and the Consummation of a Lord, or a King.
Yet his Consummation was made possible by an everyday person. That
everyday person, an ordinary everyday person, will even become a great
God. Then even more so, what about Dafa disciples doing something so
magnificent--they aren't just saving one person or several persons, and
they're constantly taking the initiative to clarify the truth to the
world's people, constantly doing these things, and saving even more
beings--isn't that magnificent?

I've said before that for a Dafa disciple, reaching Consummation
through personal cultivation isn't such a big deal--it's only a Dafa
disciple's laying a foundation for himself in the cultivation process to
prepare him for bigger things. If someone considers his individual
Consummation the most important thing, I'd say that he's not worthy of
being a Dafa disciple of the Fa-rectification period. So who can be called
a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple? I know that there are actually 7
billion people in the world. Our Dafa students altogether numbered only
100 million earlier on. What kind of a ratio is that? Can't those other
people obtain the Fa? In the next stage there will still be people who
cultivate, and there will still be people who reach Consummation, yet that
will be nothing but personal cultivation. The reason is, those who obtain
the Fa during the first stage are called "Fa-rectification period Dafa
disciples." You coexist with the Fa-rectification period, and Dafa has
bestowed upon you magnificent responsibilities and missions; whereas those
people who will obtain the Fa later on will only do personal cultivation.
They won't have this honor, and they're not fortunate enough to be part of
such a magnificent thing. So isn't our saving sentient beings something
truly remarkable, something truly magnificent? Actually, it's also very
urgent.

I said earlier that if we don't cultivate well, for our Dafa disciples
it won't just be a matter of painful regret when they reach Consummation
later on. Those who have cultivated well will truly have a grand
Consummation when they return--all the sentient beings who put infinite
hope in them will be saved by them. But when some of those who don't
cultivate well return, they'll find their universes in a broken and
incomplete state. As for those who've gone to the opposite side during
this persecution or even done awful things, let me tell you that Master
still doesn't want to abandon them. (Applause) Nothing of theirs at
the surface can be brought back anymore. Because they haven't cultivated
well and haven't done well, those enormous and numerous beings are all
beyond saving. Since I don't acknowledge the old forces' arrangements and
I don't acknowledge this persecution, and since the old forces have
separated the surface and Dafa disciples' original natures, there are a
lot of things Dafa disciples can't do anything about, and their surfaces
are manipulated by evil beings and have been driven to do some bad
things--which is because they have attachments that have been taken
advantage of by the evil beings--so I will extract Dafa disciples'
original natures. Meanwhile, both the old forces who arranged that Dafa
disciples' surfaces would be manipulated to do bad things, and those evil
beings who've been used by the old forces to directly persecute Dafa, will
be stripped of their Attainment Statuses and be stripped of all their
abilities. They'll be thrust into the parts of the human bodies of those
Dafa disciples, who were persecuted by them, which are made up of karma
and all kinds of postnatally-acquired notions, and that part of the human
body will be eliminated in the metabolic process--that is, the part that
was taken advantage of by them--and after they are thrust into it, they
will go down to hell together. This is because the bad things are really
done by the old forces using the evil beings and manipulating people's
karma and notions. They cause such disciples of mine to return the same
way they came, but to not bring anything back; meanwhile, when they
return, the gigantic cosmic bodies they represent will be empty and will
no longer have all the beings that used to be there. Since they didn't
cultivate well, everything will have turned bad and been weeded out, and
it can only be re-created. That's why I say that in your personal
cultivation it's extremely important that you keep persevering with Fa-study.
If you don't study the Fa well, when you do Dafa work there will be a lot
of things that are hard for you to handle correctly or do well. But if you
do study the Fa well, you'll find many things a lot easier to do, and at
the same time, problems will be less apt to occur. That's why I've said
that no matter how busy you are, you must study the Fa.

What I just talked about was the first thing. The second thing is that
we need to make a priority of clarifying the truth. You need to know that
clarifying the truth is extremely important for Dafa disciples. You aren't
just doing personal cultivation--your own cultivation is saving the beings
in the gigantic cosmic bodies that you represent. When you clarify the
truth you are saving even more and even larger additional cosmic bodies
and the beings in those cosmic bodies, because this is the responsibility
Dafa and history have bestowed upon you. Earlier I said that if a lot of
beings in the world came with extraordinary backgrounds--if they are
Kings, Lords, and Gods of huge cosmic bodies--then what they represent are
huge cosmic bodies and numerous groups of beings. When you save such a
person, think about it, aren't you saving a God? He's probably an
extremely high-level God, and he corresponds to even larger cosmic bodies
and numerous sentient beings. What kind of mighty virtue are we talking
about, then? Is this a simple thing? Only Dafa disciples can have such
great missions bestowed upon them.

So for you, personal Consummation is minor. You have cultivated
multiple times in history, and have gone through journeys like this in
many time periods. The current test of your reaching the standard for
personal Consummation isn't a big deal at all. That's the standard for
measuring how much of Dafa you grasp. Your process of personal cultivation
and Consummation was actually laying a foundation for your safeguarding
the Fa and validating the Fa later on. This is because you have to have
certain qualities, and you have to have a deep understanding and grasp of
the Fa; at the same time, in your own cultivation process you have to
fully meet the personal standard that you are able to reach. Only then can
you truly validate the Fa and do what a Dafa disciple should do at
critical moments. So a Dafa disciple's responsibilities aren't for the
sake of personal Consummation, but to save sentient beings while
validating the Fa--that is a Dafa disciple's historic mission, and
that is why Dafa disciples are truly magnificent.

I'd like to tell you, actually, that the people in this world... the
Primordial Spirit of the person inside that human skin, back when Gods
first created man, has gradually been left in other dimensions during
recent time periods, and they haven't been allowed to reincarnate over.
The vast majority of human skins are now occupied by high-level beings. In
other words, they wanted to come and obtain the Fa, and they needed to use
human skins; Dafa disciples are included among them. That's why your
clarifying the truth is extremely important.

Of course, many students have been quietly doing large amounts of
truth-clarifying work--passing out flyers, making phone calls, using the
Internet, going to the consulates, and using all different forms of media
to tell the world's people the truth about Dafa and to expose the evil's
persecution. The students inside China are even more extraordinary--under
the enormous pressure from the evil, they are validating the Fa and saving
sentient beings. All of this is extraordinary, it's magnificent. What's
more, you've done this of your own initiative. Whether it's the bitter
cold of winter, the intense heat of summer, or when everything is covered
by ice and snow, or in the pouring rain, and no matter what people's
attitudes are or how difficult it is, you haven't let up. Master knows
about all of this. I see it, and I'm happy. I know that you're choosing on
your own to do what you should. This is what the overall body of Dafa
disciples is doing. Of course, there are a few people who aren't diligent,
there are a few people whose understanding isn't adequate. But they can't
represent the larger group. The overall body is doing really well. And on
top of this, those who hadn't stepped forward are gradually stepping
forward. I've affirmed all of what you're doing many times. In other
words, Dafa disciples are doing things pretty much according to the
requirements of Fa-rectification. There are no problems in all of this,
and it's extremely good.

Just now I discussed two things. The third thing is your sending forth
righteous thoughts. These are the three things that Dafa disciples need to
do at present. Sending forth righteous thoughts is another really
magnificent thing for our Dafa disciples. This overwhelming persecution of
Dafa, of Dafa students, and of the world's people that has happened since
July 20th of 1999 is unprecedented. In history, the
persecutions of Christianity, Buddhism, and other religions were never
this evil. Back then there weren't massive media apparatuses like these,
transportation means weren't advanced, either, and persecutions were
limited to small regions. Today, China's area is vast, and the number of
sentient beings who've been victimized is very large--in China alone more
than a billion people have been directly victimized. But this persecution
isn't limited to just China. This persecution is actually worldwide--the
slander has poisoned people's minds the world over. Meanwhile, the lies
and propaganda that have blanketed the earth have put enormous pressure on
Dafa disciples. And more seriously, such lies and slander have poisoned
people's minds all over the world. This is the Fa of the cosmos. It is the
Fa that created all life. If any being's head contains bad thoughts about
Dafa--think about it, Fa-rectification is now taking place and a being's
attitude toward Fa-rectification determines whether he remains or is
eliminated--could that being still be kept when the Fa rectifies the human
world? He'll be weeded out as soon as Fa-rectification of the human world
begins. So isn't this a persecution of the whole world, of the entire
human race?

Dafa disciples are remarkable. When the persecution first started, you
had never come across anything like this, you weren't mentally prepared,
and you didn't really know what to do. Then you gradually collected
yourselves, and gradually you stepped forward to validate the Fa. Now you
are more rationally exposing the evil and saving sentient beings. At this
point we've basically allowed all governments and the vast majority of
people around the entire world to know that our Falun Dafa is good. They
all know that we're being wrongfully persecuted, they all know the ugly
nature of the evil head scoundrel in China and the warped, disgusting face
of that tyrant and they can see clearly the evilness of the gang of
political scoundrels. What we've been up against is the enormous
propaganda machine of a nation that's manipulated by an extremely evil,
political scoundrel ruler. We've managed to let people all over the world
learn the truth about the persecution, and to save those people whose
minds were poisoned by the slander and lies. It's remarkable--truly
remarkable. The disciples in Mainland China are doing this even more so in
the face of severe pressure. They have awakened the Chinese people. And
they have awakened people all over the world, who now know the evilness of
this persecution. Nobody is going along with it, and everyone is resisting
it. Could the evil still keep it up, then? In fact, the evil factors that
control the persecution are extremely few now, and the old forces think
that they don't have enough to test Dafa. The evil, too, has seen that
it's done for, that Dafa will never be eradicated.

Remember back when you first started to send forth righteous thoughts?
Those evil beings that were persecuting Dafa disciples came over
immediately, lining up in formation and beating their drums. Through
sending forth righteous thoughts for a period of time, you have cleaned
out large quantities of those evil factors. Now when you send forth
righteous thoughts, your gong has to search all over for those evil
things. As soon as Dafa disciples hold their palms erect they flee. Dafa
disciples are able to righteously look the evil people straight in the
eyes, and the evil people immediately try to avoid eye contact. That's
because the righteous thoughts scare off the evil beings that manipulate
the evil people, since they know that if they flee just a bit too slowly
they'll be instantly eliminated by Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts.
That's why the evil is now constantly contracting itself around where the
evil is concentrated in China. The evil factors that are controlling
people's minds in other parts of the world are in the final stage of being
eliminated.

I remember that when this had just started on July 20th of
1999, in many parts of the world nobody knew what Dafa was about--"Such a
large-scale suppression is suddenly happening in China, what's it all
about?" Media outlets all over the world repeated China's slanderous
propaganda. The pressure was enormous back then. Of course, that was only
the pressure's outward form. There was also a fundamental kind of
pressure. But even the outward pressure had never been seen before in
history. You have gone against that kind of pressure and have rectified
everything to this extent. That's truly remarkable.

At that time, when the evil factors in the cosmos that are slated for
elimination pressed down from above, they were extremely huge. They packed
the entire Three Realms and the dimensions made up of layers upon layers
of particles. The evil of the entire cosmos was pressing down--something
that enormous was pressing down toward mankind and toward the Three
Realms. You saw that the photograph of Earth published back then by the
media looked like the face of a demon. But that was only the manifestation
at Earth's surface-layer dimension. If it weren't for the Fa-rectification,
not a single being in the Three Realms would have survived, because that
thing was powerful enough to destroy a considerably large cosmic body.
When the force of Fa-rectification destroyed all the things that were
pressed down, the factors that had restrained people's thoughts were
eliminated as a whole, and the situation changed a lot after that. When
you tried to clarify the truth before, a lot of people wouldn't listen at
all, and their behavior was foul. When you tried to clarify the truth
again after those things were destroyed, people became willing to accept
it, and they were able to listen to you. But they still weren't rational
enough, because those evil beings that had made their way into the Three
Realms were still manipulating people--they were still manipulating people
who had bad thoughts about Dafa. As a result of the slanderous propaganda,
there were quite a few people like that, and that's why the pressure on us
was still pretty big. Also, many evil beings were really base. It was
under those circumstances that I told you to send forth righteous
thoughts. After the evil factors that were manipulating human beings were
eliminated in the course of our sending righteous thoughts, only then did
the world's people fundamentally become clearheaded.

Throughout the entire process of Fa-rectification, my gong has
been coming from the microcosm toward the surface. The speed is in fact
extremely fast. I'll talk about the speed of Fa-rectification in a minute.
Before the force of Fa-rectification arrives at the surface level of human
beings, or in other words, as Fa-rectification keeps progressing towards
this surface, during this small gap of time before the surface goes
through Fa-rectification, the evil old forces are displaying everything of
theirs, and using the most evil and lowest-level, horribly messed up,
odd-shaped beings to persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples. Dafa disciples, by
contrast, are validating the Fa and saving sentient beings during this
time before Fa-rectification arrives. Everything is being displayed during
this period of time.

The force of Fa-rectification will continue to dash through the
remaining dimensions right up until Fa-rectification is completely
finished. But, until the force of Fa-rectification reaches the surface
dimensions, the old Fa, the degenerated Fa of the cosmos, will still exist
in the surface dimensions. Therefore, this old Fa will continue to govern
all the beings in the old dimensions until Fa-rectification arrives. If
this old Fa were destroyed too early, that is, if the old Fa were
destroyed before Fa-rectification arrives, think about it, serious
problems would occur: from the top of the cosmos to its bottom, the
horizontal dimensions, the vertical dimensions, all dimensions would be
thrown into disorder, all times in the cosmos would cease to exist, it
would become the largest dimension, the fastest time, all of the beings in
the old dimensions would turn rotten at the fastest speed in the fastest
time, all matter would immediately go bad, and everything that remains at
the surface of the old cosmos and that hasn't gone through Fa-rectification
would be done for and instantly disintegrate. This small bit of the old
cosmos's surface that hasn't gone through Fa-rectification is also made up
of countless gigantic dimensions, countless sentient beings, and countless
Gods, so before it has gone through Fa-rectification it can't yet be
destroyed, or else the sentient beings there would disintegrate before the
Fa-rectification arrives and they wouldn't be saved. Master isn't saving
just you and the people of the world--I'm also saving those high-level
beings. The old beings aren't able to see what the new cosmos is like, and
they aren't allowed to see it, either. So they're following the old Fa-principles
and upholding everything of the old cosmos. That's why when I hold them to
the requirements of the new cosmos they aren't willing to comply--they
can't see it. Then, during the Fa-rectification, the old Fa is actually
playing the role of interfering with me and the Dafa disciples. I have the
ability to destroy it. But as I just said, to save sentient beings I can't
destroy it. If it were destroyed, these beings couldn't be saved, and all
the sentient beings in these cosmic bodies would be completely done for.
Besides, the main body of our Dafa disciples is still here, and it would
be even more difficult to offer salvation.

So, many things can't be looked at simplistically. If this old Fa isn't
done away with, it will make Fa-rectification difficult; but if this Fa
is done away with, it will seriously impact the saving of sentient
beings. When Dafa disciples send forth righteous thoughts, pure and
righteous thoughts, to clean out the evil's persecution of them, that's
allowed--the old Fa-principles include principles like that as well. This
is the same idea as approaching cultivation with righteous thoughts, or as
saving sentient beings with righteous thoughts. That's why you can do
this. If Master were to do it for you, the old Fa-principles and the old
Gods wouldn't stand for it. I've already done many things for you, so if I
overdid it, doing too much, or if I completely took over everything and
did it all, the old Fa-principles and the beings in the old cosmos would
see this and they absolutely would not stand for it. They would think that
I had taken over everything of yours, and that Dafa disciples hadn't done
their own cultivation. So they would rise up to block it.

Of course, if they block things I can eliminate them. But would that
work? A lot of things aren't that simple. For example, I'll give you an
illustration. Some students in China haven't conducted themselves too well
at times. When they were arrested and persecuted, when those vicious
policemen beat them, they beat them horribly. But at that moment, some
students' righteous thoughts weren't adequate, and so the persecution that
they suffered became even more severe. When the evil was beating them they
forgot that they were Dafa disciples, and they didn't think, "I'll ask
Master to help me." Or, when some people did ask Master for help, they had
a strong attachment of fear. When they were beaten and in a lot of pain,
many of them cried out, "Oww! Mom!" They completely treated this
persecution as a persecution of ordinary human beings against other human
beings. Then if I tried to protect them at that time, those old forces
wouldn't stand for it, because they're upholding the principles of the old
cosmos; they think those are the only principles of the cosmos, and they
can't see the new cosmos. They would say: "This is your disciple? Do you
think he sees you as his Master? Has he regarded himself as a cultivator?
Does he have righteous thoughts? Has he put aside the thought of life and
death? Has he remained solid and unshakable, like diamond?" At those
moments, Master really couldn't respond to them in the face of their
criticism. Of course, you can't say he isn't my disciple just because of
his behavior in one or two instances or during one lifetime. They know
this, too, so they say: "The reason we beat him is to bring out his
righteous thoughts. See, he doesn't even acknowledge you as his Master.
And he doesn't regard himself as a Dafa disciple, either."

That's why sometimes Master was really left with nothing to say. But,
since the cosmos is going through Fa-rectification, I don't acknowledge
this persecution one bit. I can completely clean out the Gods who
manipulate and utilize the evil beings, as well as the evil beings
themselves. No matter how high their levels are, no matter who did the
beating, who did the manipulating, who used others, or who arranged it, I
can grab them with one swipe of my hand and destroy them. As I sit here,
Master is just an ordinary person--just regard me as an ordinary person.
But Master's bodies in all other dimensions are immense beyond compare,
with each one larger than the next; no matter how large the cosmos is,
it's still not as large as I am. (Applause) But think about it,
everyone, if I were to destroy those beings, the old principles and the
beings in the gigantic surface dimensions of the cosmos that haven't gone
through Fa-rectification would all see it and say, "What are you doing?"
So they would gang up and attack, and form a force that opposes me. Even
so, I would still be able to destroy them--no matter how many of them
came, I could clean them out, strip them of their Attainment Statuses, and
cast them down into hell. But think about it everyone, I came to save all
beings. Aren't those Gods beings, too? They are beings of even higher
levels, beings who are even more worthy of being saved. This Dafa
disciple, on the other hand, doesn't act like a Dafa disciple, yet for him
I destroy countless, countless Gods--think about it, is that right? No,
it's not. That's why I'm telling you that it's awfully hard for Master to
take care of certain things. It's not that Master doesn't have the
ability; it's to allow all sentient beings to be saved. When you conduct
yourselves righteously Master can do anything for you. If your righteous
thoughts are truly strong, if you're able to put aside the thought of life
and death, and if you're solid and unshakable like diamond, then those
evil beings won't dare to touch you, because they know that other than
killing you any type of persecution will be useless. The evil will have no
choice but to leave you alone. If in this scenario the evil still
persecutes you, then Master will show no leniency. Master has countless
Law Bodies, and on top of this, there are countless righteous Gods helping
me do things, and they will directly eliminate the evil, too. Didn't I
tell you before that each of you Dafa disciples has eight types of
Heavenly Law-Guardians protecting you? It's all because you haven't done
well enough that all these Gods are being restrained by the old cosmos's
Fa-principles and can't do anything, despite their really wanting to help.

What exactly, then, is the relationship between me and the old forces?
Let me talk about this. The fact is, these old forces, strictly speaking,
aren't trying to destroy this Fa-rectification, and they don't dare to
destroy it. Their purpose, although it's impure, is also to have this Fa-rectification
succeed, it's just that they want all of this to follow their
requirements--they want Fa-rectification to follow their
requirements--which is absolutely prohibited. That's because all beings in
the cosmos have degenerated, and even the original elements that make up
their beings are no longer pure--even the elements of the elements are no
longer pure. They can't detect this themselves, and no matter what they
do, they won't be able to make themselves truly pure again. They can't
even meet the requirements of Fa-rectification and of the new cosmos--how
could they rectify the Fa? How could the Fa-rectification follow their
requirements? If after the Fa-rectification the new cosmos were created
according to the standards and requirements of the old cosmos's beings,
then wouldn't it still be the old cosmos? Wouldn't that be changing the
form of things without addressing the underlying issue? None of the
sentient beings in the old cosmos have any idea what the cosmos was like
in its original, purest, and most righteous state, so how could this be
done their way? That's why I can't acknowledge them. But they don't want
to be disintegrated amidst the old Fa-principles of formation, stasis,
degeneration, and destruction, so, out of instinct they want to save
themselves. The beings from the highest level to the lowest level of the
cosmos have taken part in this, in this complete system that runs all the
way down; at each level twenty percent of the beings have taken part, and
each level is arranging specifically how to help me do Fa-rectification.
But the layers upon layers of beings have become impure, and even the last
being has become impure. When they're helping me, at the same time they
hide their selfish intention of protecting themselves. They all want to
change others but not themselves--no one wants to change himself--and they
even try to preserve as much as possible the things they're attached to
and won't let go of. They've done a lot of things very poorly throughout
the process; they did some of the things intentionally, while with some
other things, they couldn't even realize that those were bad things. So
none of what they've done can meet the standard of the new cosmos, and it
couldn't even meet the standard of the initial stage of the old cosmos, so
it's far from the requirements of the new cosmos--it's totally different.
These beings have no way of knowing what the new cosmos is like. At this
critical moment, the behavior of sentient beings toward Fa-rectification
is determining their future. In other words, amidst the Fa-rectification,
all beings are being tested and repositioned, including being weeded out.
That's why they're not at all allowed to know what the new cosmos is like.
Everything that's gone through Fa-rectification is completely different
from everything they arranged.

While we're on this subject, let me first talk a little about time.
Actually, the Fa-rectification is moving very fast. Outside the cosmic
body, everything of the new cosmos can be created as quickly as the wave
of a hand. Although that's just an analogy, it's really as if it's just
done with a wave of the hand--it's that fast. Then why has it taken me
more than ten years to carry this out? The fact is, there are different
dimensions in the cosmos, and each dimension has a different time. In the
cosmos, from the largest to the smallest, from the infinitely microcosmic
to the infinitely macrocosmic, there are countless particles, on each
particle there's an independent time, and each time has a different
length. Then inside the different-sized worlds that are composed of
particles, there are times; inside the even more gigantic cosmic bodies
that are composed of countless particles, there are times as well; and
then the gigantic groups of particles that are at the same levels,
existing as a whole, also have even more gigantic times. In the cosmos
there are so many different times that they're as countless as the beings
in the cosmos. And the cosmos as a whole has another time, which contains
countless, countless times that have their specific effects in all the
different dimensions; all these times were created for the ways of
existence of the sentient beings in the different dimensions. So some
dimensions' times are very fast, while some dimensions' times are very
slow. The sentence that I just uttered about the different speeds in
different dimensions, for example, from the beginning of it up to now,
some dimensions' times have proceeded at the same speed as mine here,
while in some dimensions several days have already passed, in some
dimensions ten of thousands of years have already passed, and in some
dimensions hundreds of millions of years, or thousands of billions of
years have already passed, that fast. This is because the cosmos is
incredibly gigantic, the particles inside it are infinitely microcosmic
and infinitely macrocosmic, and they all have their own times. Think about
it, no matter how large the entire cosmos is, if Fa-rectification is done
beyond all concepts of time that are in the cosmos, beyond everything, if
it's done outside of the cosmos's time and not restricted by any certain
time, then no matter how large the cosmos is and how many different times
there are, outside the cosmic body it's completed with a wave of the hand.
And that speed is faster than even the fastest time in the cosmos. But,
have you thought about something? In some places hundreds of millions of
years have already passed while this wave takes place.

It's not too bad in this human dimension--it's only been ten-plus years
since Fa-rectification began, and it's only been two-plus years since July
20th of 1999, spanning four calendar years, and my Fa-rectification
has only been ten-plus years. Think about it, isn't that fast? It's
actually very fast--all of this is done in the time it takes for a wave of
the hand, and the difference in time manifest in the human dimension is
more than ten years. What's more, the overall time of the cosmos has been
pushed faster since Fa-rectification began. Before July of 1999, what used
to be one second was one whole day. Even now it's still speeding up. What
used to be about one second is one whole year now--and this is only an
average figure, and it's still accelerating.

Think about it, everyone, at this fast speed it amounts to nothing in
light of the entire history of your existence, or the eternity of your
existence. In the future, when you look back on this period of time
[you'll find that] it was only an instant, that it was nothing. At the
beginning of this persecution, each day felt like a year to you all. Even
during this recent period of time, many students have been wondering,
"When will it end? When is this persecution going to end?" Some people are
thus thinking about Master having written in his poems that spring is
coming, (everyonelaughs) and think, "Oh, so it'll end in
the spring?" I also mentioned autumn in my poems, (everyone
laughs) so some students said, "It must mean it's going to end in
autumn." Then when autumn was over and it didn't end, they seemed to be
somewhat disappointed. Think about it, isn't that using ordinary human
thinking to look at these things?

If one person thinks this way, or two people think this way, or maybe
three people think this way, it's not a big deal. But if Dafa disciples as
a whole or if more people are thinking this way, then isn't that a strong
attachment, a strong obstacle? Instead of truly using this period of time
well, you're hoping that it will end soon. Think about it, if we ended it
today, how many people in China would die? A lot of people correspond to
numerous beings in even larger cosmic bodies, so if this ended
immediately, how many beings would be weeded out? If due to our inability
to clear out the evil thoughts in their heads that are hostile to the
Great Fa of the cosmos, and yet many of them represent gigantic cosmic
bodies, then how many beings in the universes that correspond to them
would die as a result of these people being weeded out? Do you realize how
many beings would be weeded out? Have you thought about this? You are Dafa
disciples; history has bestowed upon you magnificent responsibilities. We
should make good use of this time. Since this hasn't ended it's a chance
to save sentient beings. There's only a short while left; once the Fa-rectification
of the human world begins, the positioning of people will be set. Although
we don't acknowledge the arrangements of the old forces, during this
period of time you have tempered yourselves and have established Dafa
disciples' mighty virtue. When Dafa is persecuted, the first thing Dafa
disciples should think of is saving sentient beings and how to validate
Dafa. Isn't that magnificent? We don't acknowledge this arrangement by the
evil one bit, but after all, the persecution has taken place, and after
all, the evil has persecuted so many sentient beings. Shouldn't our first
thought be how to make good use of time to save them? To treat it as an
ordinary human persecution against other human beings, to think with an
ordinary human mind, "When will they restore our name? When will it
end?"--think about it, are these the thoughts a Dafa disciple should have?

Don't worry that it will take a long time. I can tell you that
Christianity rose after three hundred years of persecution. Is a Dafa
disciple, with his important mission, not as good as an ordinary
cultivator? What's crucial is how we understand things. Let me ask you, if
it would take another ten years to save all sentient beings, would you
still do it? (The students reply together, "Yes!") (Applause)
That's how a Dafa disciple should be. (Applause) Of course, there
won't be another ten years. It's not allowed to take that long, and they
don't have that much time left in their lives.

But what's crucial is how Dafa disciples look at things. If one or two
people think this way it's not a problem. But if all Dafa disciples think
this way, then that's a problem. Do you remember how before April 25th
of 1999 that Premier of China said positive things about Dafa? When our
students went to appeal on April 25th, he met with some Dafa
disciples and said good things. After the persecution started, this caused
some of our students to develop a lot of ordinary human thoughts,
thinking: "I hope the chief of the evil in Mainland China dies soon. I
hope he falls from power so the premier can take his place. And if the
premier is in power, won't our name be restored?" Didn't it cross your
mind: this is the Fa of the cosmos, so if humans want to attack it, you
think they can just attack it? And if human beings want to restore our
name, you think they can just restore our name? Humans aren't worthy of
that! How could you pin your hopes on an ordinary person? You are Dafa
disciples! Each one of you Dafa disciples represents a large, gigantic
dimension. What does mankind amount to? It's only that the old forces are
using it and have sealed off your greater abilities. How could you think
that way about things? If all of you think that way, the old forces will
see it and think: "How can they all have those thoughts? Those thoughts
have to be removed, so let's make that premier turn bad." They would
rather make him turn bad in order to get rid of your ordinary human
thoughts. Isn't that right? The old forces have no regard for human
life--if they want to kill, they'll just kill. Amidst the Fa-rectification
they're only attached to their own arrangements.

If the Fa-rectification really were damaged, the cosmos would truly
cease to exist, and the old forces would be gone, too; not a single being
would exist, and everything would disintegrate. Although the old forces
want to renew the cosmos, in reality they can't accomplish that. So their
being attached to what they want to do and the role they play trying to
control the Fa-rectification is one hundred percent bad. All the
interference with Fa-rectification was arranged by them, so when things
aren't done according to their arrangements and wishes, they do bad
things. In the Fa-rectification these beings are to be weeded out. While
clarifying the truth, you've seen that some people are really hard to save
now. Actually, I can tell you that a lot of people in the world are
already completely beyond saving. Do you remember that line I wrote, "How
many can be saved by mercy?" Dafa disciples, no matter how much you
sacrifice when you clarify the truth, I've got to tell you, in the end
there will still be many beings that can't be saved--they're doomed to be
weeded out. I know how many people in Mainland China will be eliminated,
and it's terrifying--the number is just enormous.

Let me go back to where I was. I was talking about the relationship
between the old forces and me. The old forces saw that according to the Fa-principles
of formation, stasis, degeneration, and destruction, the cosmos would head
toward its final stage. In order to save themselves, they started to
arrange this as early as a very remote age. No one knows who I am. I do
not know who I am, either. No being has ever seen me, and no being has
ever called me by any name. I have neither form nor name, and I am
different from anything that composes any being in the cosmos. To the
sentient beings in the cosmos, I have nothing. Perhaps when the cosmos is
no more, only I am there. I have nothing. No being knows who I am. Yet
without me, the cosmos wouldn't exist. The reason I have come here is to
save all sentient beings amidst the Fa-rectification at a time when the
colossal firmament of the cosmos is disintegrating.

Actually, everything that the old forces have done is out of a natural
instinct that the cosmos's beings have to try to save themselves. But it's
useless. Every time before the colossal firmament was about to end, the
beings in those times all did this too, but they actually accelerated the
disintegration. In other words, during the Fa-rectification, all that the
behavior of the sentient beings shows is their attitude towards the Fa-rectification,
and this determines whether they are kept or not--how good their attitudes
are toward Fa-rectification is evaluated and used to reposition them. In
other words, these are nothing more than the sentient beings' performances
at the final stage of formation, stasis, degeneration, and destruction.

When I directly appeared at the lower-middle level of the colossal
firmament, the high-level beings in the colossal firmament saw it. From
having nothing, I amassed myself into something--but not a composition of
particles, since I have no particles. You know, I couldn't come here, to
where humans are, in just one step; if the composition of someone's body
is very microcosmic it affects everything in the universe. In other words,
regardless of a being's level, if he enters a universe at a lower level
that universe will be destroyed, because the more microcosmic the matter,
the more energy it has, and the more its radiation. Although a God's
energy has intelligence and is merciful, it will still change everything.
So he has to reincarnate level by level, and only when he has a surface of
that level of particles can he stay at that level. But think about it,
everyone, this takes an extremely long time, then. So that's how I entered
step by step.

I'm not the only one--a lot of Gods in the colossal firmament have come
down to the human world, and they, too, had to come down step by step like
this. Many Gods from different levels have come from the cosmos, and they
came with the purpose of saving the colossal firmament. To humans, they
are beings at extremely high levels. They vowed to save all this, and
indeed a lot of them came down. Their original intention was good, but
they were unable to carry it out. Not only couldn't they do it, but they
also couldn't return anymore. Actually, it doesn't matter who it is, once
someone enters the Three Realms it's impossible for him to ever return.
But no matter how many came, the beings at the highest level of the
colossal firmament saw that none of them could carry it out. They, too,
were watching me all along, and they saw it very clearly from up there--"Ahh,
this one can do it." They thought that the composition of my being was
different from that of all other beings in the cosmos, and that nothing
could change my essential nature. So they decided to choose me. In fact,
many Gods have come to the Earth.

Although they chose me, they didn't know who I really was. So why did I
still go along with some of the arrangements they made in history? Because
this involves an important issue. You know, I just talked about how there
are three categories of people among Dafa disciples, and one of them came
to establish a karmic relationship. The number of Dafa disciples in this
group is quite large. They came from distant cosmic bodies to establish a
karmic relationship, and they represent numerous sentient beings in very
distant and gigantic cosmic bodies; as representatives sent by sentient
beings, they came to Earth to establish a karmic relationship since Fa-rectification
was going to be done here. If I hadn't taken part in this, think about it,
then those beings at the highest level of the cosmos would have chosen
someone else to establish a karmic relationship with, and the numerous
Gods from distant cosmic bodies would have chosen someone else to
establish a karmic relationship with. This is no minor thing. If the old
forces had meticulously arranged for another being things at each
level that were for renewing the colossal firmament, it would have led to
a terrible situation. Wouldn't they have established a karmic relationship
with the wrong person? Of course, even if that did happen, they still
wouldn't have been able to block my Fa-rectification. But a serious
problem would have occurred: when it reached the time when salvation would
start, the person they chose would start to do it, even though he wouldn't
have been able to do it; meanwhile I would start to do true Fa-rectification;
then they would definitely think that I was interfering with them, and
they'd deploy all the beings in this entire old cosmos to annihilate
me--they would definitely think I was someone who was disrupting their
affairs, and try to annihilate me. But no one would be able to annihilate
me, and no one would be able to block my Fa-rectification. So think about
it, what would happen? The speed of Fa-rectification absolutely cannot be
affected, so if they impeded it I would eliminate them. They'd be
destroyed instantly, and no matter how many of them took part, they'd all
be destroyed. Then think for a moment--didn't I come to save all sentient
beings? If they were all destroyed, who would I be saving? That's why back
in history when they chose me, I considered it from the perspective of
saving them, and didn't object to it, but I couldn't let them know who I
was, either. So that's how they arranged everything in the colossal
firmament, including everything that has taken place in the history of
mankind. My thinking was that when the Fa-rectification began, it would be
a test for them, as well. And since nothing they would do could meet the
standard of the new cosmos, I would just regard everything they do as a
game. "If you want to play, I'll play along." And that's all. As for what
the Fa-rectification is truly like, that's a different matter. They are
absolutely not allowed to know what the new cosmos is like. No being is to
be left out of the Fa-rectification. They think that they chose me, that
it's equivalent to saving me, and that they've made great contributions.
As for what the cosmos would be like and what they themselves would be
like after Fa-rectification, they wanted to have what they wanted
and to keep what they wanted to keep. Let's think about this. Say
that the new cosmos is one of pure gold: if one impure being got in,
wouldn't it become impure? How could that be allowed? No being can escape
the Fa-rectification--no one can. Everything in the cosmic body, in the
colossal firmament, is part of it. So in other words, no matter how the
old forces went about arranging things, I let them arrange them, but in
the end this undertaking absolutely can't be done according to their
requirements. So that's why all of these impediments have come about
today; they're the result of the old forces insisting on having me follow
their arrangements. No matter how big these impediments are, it actually
hasn't affected the essence of my Fa-rectification. And the speed is just
as fast. It's being done according to my requirements all the same--the
new cosmos is establishing everything completely according to Dafa's
standards. In fact, the old forces are just acting up during this gap of
time before the Fa-rectification arrives; and Dafa disciples are also
upholding the Fa and saving sentient beings during this time; the evil,
base beings that are being used by the old forces, meanwhile, are doing
things here that persecute Dafa disciples and sentient beings; and the
wicked people who are being manipulated by the base, evil beings are, also
during this time, doing evil.

For how long have the old forces been arranging such things here where
humans are? For two Earths' time. I said before that Dafa was taught in
the human world back in the past. A lot of students then asked me when it
was taught. It was taught on the previous Earth. Why? The previous Earth
was an experiment conducted for this Earth. The old forces experimented
with the last Earth so as to make sure there wouldn't be problems at the
end with their arrangements for the renewal. It was to make sure that no
problems would come up, and to prevent it from going awry. So why did they
need to do such a long-term experiment? Because there had never before
been any beings like man here at this Earth's location. Why do I always
talk about alien beings? It's because no matter how many Earths were
renewed in the past, the main beings here at this Earth's location were
like alien life-forms. There were differences in each time period, but
none of them had the image of man.

Why did the Gods in history create man in their own image? This has
been a mystery to the cultivation world, too. I'll tell you, it's because
the Fa was to be taught here, and sentient beings who listen to the Fa
need to have an appearance that's worthy of listening to the Fa. Bringing
a bunch of animals here to listen to the Fa would be an insult to the
Great Fa, and that's just not allowed. If it weren't for Dafa's being
taught, were a God to create beings here with man's image, all the Gods
would eliminate him, since that would be the same as insulting Gods. It
was for Fa-rectification that Gods created human beings on Earth in their
own image. Asians were created by Gods who resemble Asians, Westerners
were created by Gods who resemble Westerners, and Gods who resemble black
people created black people, and other races of people were created by
other Gods. At that time all humans called those Gods who created them
Lords. But now ninety percent of the human race are beings from high
levels, and most of them are from very high levels. They are merely using
the human skins that Gods created back then; they don't really have a
direct relationship with the Gods who created man's being. Back when I
taught the Fa on the first Earth, I didn't teach a Fa of this magnitude,
because that was only for experimental purposes. The Fa that was taught
only saved sentient beings to the Falun Paradise, so the sentient beings
that were saved during that period are all in the Falun Paradise. That
Earth was allowed to exist until the final stage. The technology at that
time was quite advanced; that was when the moon was sent up there. Yet the
highly-developed industrial sector made the air, the water, the soil, the
plants, and the food of humans--everything at that time--become deformed.
In the end, even humans became deformed, Earth's energy was completely
depleted, and the humans of that period came to an end.

So this period of Earth began 100 million years ago. Some of you
present here might be thinking, "But what I learned from textbooks is that
it's been 3.5 billion to 4.5 billion years." I can tell you that the
period of each Earth has lasted 100 million years, and the previous Earth
also lasted 100 million years. But in Zhuan Falun I also told you
that the artifacts on Earth date back hundreds of millions of years, and
that some of them go back more than 2 billion years. I was only trying to
tell people that prehistoric civilizations existed. People are only
allowed to know that much; that is, that within the history of this 100
million years mankind also created many prehistoric cultures. The planets
that were previously at Earth's location also went through disintegration
and re-creation many times. In the cosmos many planets disintegrate and
their remnants float about, forming dust and small star-like objects. In
the gigantic cosmic body, planets are continually disintegrating and
continually re-forming, and they are disintegrated by explosions. Earth
was also re-formed from previous Earths consecutively exploding and then
re-forming into the next Earth--one explodes, the next one re-forms.
There's a lot of dust in space. Some of it is huge, some of it's like
large rocks, some of it is as large as several square kilometers, and some
is even as large as 100 square kilometers. There have been civilizations
on every planet, and previous Earths also had civilizations. So, on many
big pieces of things that weren't completely destroyed by the explosions,
there are remnants of the previous creatures' civilizations. When Earth
was re-created it was done by putting together this cosmic dust, and this
is why there are remnants of artifacts and of civilizations from previous
Earths and other planets. So if I didn't reveal this today, geologists and
historians wouldn't be able to figure out which periods the materials on
this Earth are from, regardless of the methods they use. This Earth, as I
just said, has a history of 100 million years; counting up to the present
it's exactly 100 million years, and it has reached the age of the previous
Earth that was here. Of course, during these 100 million years mankind has
gone through several civilizations, and been destroyed by Gods many times
for its moral decay. The so-called civilization mankind has right now was
purposefully arranged by the old forces--it's not a true human culture.

Then why not directly create human skins at the time when the Fa is
taught and have Gods come down here to listen to the Fa? Why instead
create man so much earlier in history? You need to know that when Gods
create humans, they can't include in them Gods' thoughts and ways of
thinking, since that would make them complete Gods, not human beings. And
that's not allowed. Although humans have the appearance of Gods, Gods
can't regard humans as their kin, for humans behave completely differently
from Gods. So, what were humans like initially? The body structure of
humans was created by Gods, so it is the most perfect human body system in
this dimension. All the alien beings sigh in admiration when they see it!
Of course, it also includes humans' three souls and seven spirits, and
together this forms a complete human body. Without the three souls and
seven spirits it would only be a human body's surface, or a "human skin."
The concept of the "human skin" is different from the skin that human
beings know. Gods consider everything of the human body at the outermost
surface that's made up of molecular particles, including its bones, blood,
internal organs, and so on, the entire human body structure at the
surface, or to put it another way, looking at it from the microcosm, the
human that's made up of molecular cells at the surface, everything that's
visible to the human eye when the body is dissected, Gods refer to this
whole structure at the surface as a "human skin." They aren't referring to
the skin of human beings.

But a human who lacks the ability to understand the cosmos and all the
things in the human world, or to understand how life manifests, and who
lacks the ability to endure the changes in the kaleidoscopic world, who
doesn't have any formed ideas, and who can't understand or adapt to the
cosmos, the earth, or the natural world--how would he act? I'll tell you,
when happy things came about, he would run up a tree and roar with endless
laughter, laughing so hysterically it's scary. When something sad and
painful happened to him he would burrow into the ground, and he wouldn't
be able to get over it for days. When he came across something that
angered him, he would vent his anger without any thought of the
consequences. And he would die of happiness, anger, sadness, or joy. Think
about it, could this type of person listen to the Fa? Yet when humans were
first created they were like that; they didn't have any substance to them,
they didn't have any endurance, and their concept and understanding of the
things in this dimension were incomplete. So people had to go through a
long period of time to gradually enrich the human mind and give them
substance and endurance. This wasn't something that could be done in a
short time, so these 100 million years were spent doing this. The way
people act today is such that they don't panic when something happens to
them, they stay composed and calm, they think rationally, and they even
have creativity. The fact that human beings have such minds and think
normally as they do is a result of Gods purposefully creating this for
humans over an incredibly long period of time in history. And this
process, I can tell you, continued until five thousand years ago.

When it arrived at this time period of the last five thousand years of
China's semi-divine culture, a systematic normalizing of the human mind
began so that it would be able to accept the Fa. Although the principles
in the human dimension are reversed, the Great Fa of the cosmos is
upright. When I teach the Fa, the inner meanings of the Fa-principles, the
words, and the ways it's expressed are heard differently at different
levels above the Three Realms, but the Fa-principles are still consistent
throughout. The different realms that different beings have elevated to
account for the differences--they aren't misaligned. If I taught one way
here among humans and another way in the heavens, think about it, this Fa
wouldn't be all-encompassing--and we can't have that--because in the Fa-rectification
the Fa taught here among humans has to correspond to the entire cosmos.
When I teach the Fa, the me's at level after level are teaching the Fa,
too, and sentient beings at level after level are listening to the Fa.

Then how was man's thinking to be shaped and normalized in a way that
would allow him to understand the Fa when he hears It? However I was going
to teach the Fa, that's how mankind's culture and the human mind would
have to be shaped. People around the world all know what virtue is, what
faith is, what goodness is, what evil is, and what good and bad are--these
are the most basic. In China they manifest more concretely, and their
inner meanings are deeper. Since the Fa was to be taught there and this
undertaking was to be done there, a rich culture that could truly allow
people to recognize and understand the Fa needed to be created there. I
told you before that in history I was forming karmic relationships with
many of my Dafa disciples all along. Establishing the karmic relationships
was only the outer goal; after forging the karmic relationships, Dafa
disciples and I also had to shoulder the responsibility of creating man's
civilization and the culture that Dafa would require. This is because in
history, if an ordinary, everyday person wanted to leave behind in
mankind's history--which was created for teaching Dafa--a civilization,
historical remnants, or a theory, that absolutely wouldn't have been
allowed. So all of the culture that's been passed down from history was
made by Dafa disciples; and of course there was also Master, who was
leading you. Mankind's history is like a play, and you played all the
roles--from kings to common folk, from heroes to villains (laughter),
from intellectuals, to famous people, to heroes. Now don't laugh! If
nobody played the role of villain, then when I taught the Fa today nobody
would know what a villain is, what a villain's actions are, how he thinks
and feels, or what a villain looks like. There can't be blank spots in the
Fa.

You know about Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right? Romance
of the Three Kingdoms demonstrated "yi."Through a
dynasty and a contest of strength among three powers, the inner meaning of
yi was fully demonstrated. Also, it was over a period of time as
long as a dynasty that the deep meaning of yi was demonstrated, and
only after that does mankind, when the Fa is taught today, have a deep
understanding of yi, and know what yi is, the extended
relationship between its surface and its inner meaning, or how it
manifests at deeper levels. People can't just know this word's surface
meaning--they need to understand all of its inner meaning. Of course,
Romance of the Three Kingdoms also demonstrated the resourcefulness of
man and other qualities.

Yue Fei from the Southern Song dynasty demonstrated what "loyalty" is.
What is "loyalty"? You can't just say it and give an explanation. Only
after an entire dynasty were people able to really know its true inner
meaning, what it's related to at deeper levels, and how it's demonstrated
in action.

In history, there were also different schools of thought, and there
were also the concepts of benevolence, yi, propriety, learning,
trustworthiness, and so on, that Confucius set forth with his teaching of
the golden mean. Only after Sakyamuni, Lao Zi, and Jesus came could people
today truly know what righteous faith is and cultivation is, what a
Buddha, a Dao, and a God is, and so on--these kinds of things. Throughout
history the thinking of today's mankind was being enriched, and this has
allowed people to recognize and understand the Fa, and to obtain the Fa.
The entire course of mankind's history was laying this foundation. In
other words, it was for teaching Dafa that human beings and human culture
were created--it's not that the Fa is being taught in keeping with
mankind's culture, and even less is it the product of mankind's culture.
So this is what we've done in these five thousand years.

While we're on this subject, let me put it most vividly: human society
is like a play--dynasty after dynasty, it's just like the curtain opens
and a dynasty begins to play out, and as one dynasty ends, the big curtain
closes; then it opens again, and a different dynasty replaces the old one.
Dynasty after dynasty, one after another, they paraded through in this
way, formed karmic relationships, left behind history, and created the
cultures needed by mankind, performing one scene after another. Why are
these called "dynasties" in China, but elsewhere "countries"? Why are
their leaders called "kings," while in China they're called "emperors"?
Let me tell you, this isn't a difference in terminology or cultures. Since
mankind was created for Dafa, Dafa is this play's main theme, and all
sentient beings' existences revolve around this main theme. It's just that
people have been engrossed with the conflicts and clashes that have been
acted out in the detailsof the play, and
have forgotten the play's main theme and the purpose of life. The play's
stage is China.

Dynasty after dynasty, the people in each dynasty were a dynasty of
people from the heavens. They are representatives from distant cosmic
bodies, representing the countless sentient beings there and having come
here to form a karmic relationship so that those sentient beings wouldn't
be left out during the Fa-rectification. While forming a karmic
relationship during their dynasty, they left behind the culture that they
brought with them. And after they formed their karmic relationship, in the
next life they reincarnated in other regions and waited for the day when
Dafa would be taught. Every dynasty was like this, and all ethnicities in
the world incarnated in China--and this includes persons in every country.
Other than the large number of beings from higher realms that came after I
began to teach the Fa in recent times, the people in each country
incarnated in China at some point in history. No matter which country
you're in, you were first Chinese on this earth, because your first
incarnation was there. Having said this much, I need to tell you that the
form and the inner meaning of China as a country actually don't exist. Are
you shocked by what I just said? Actually, Chinese culture was left behind
by all the world's people in different dynasties; and these people
reincarnated in other regions after they formed a karmic relationship. For
example, today's Americans were people of the Great Ming dynasty. Today's
Americans like Daoism a lot and still demonstrate the values of that time.
Back when Daoism reached its height of popularity in the Ming dynasty, in
some cities almost every family had a crucible set up in the home. England
was the Great Tang, France was the Great Qing, Italy was the Yuan,
Australia was the Xia, Russia was the Zhou, Sweden was the Northern Song,
Taiwan was the Southern Song, and Japan was the Sui. In those times,
people from each dynasty left China and reincarnated to places that didn't
have the countries that are there now--they were still rugged wilderness.
So most people reincarnated all over the world in a scattered way, and
only returned to their places in recent times. People from one dynasty
went one place, while people from another dynasty went to another
place--that's how it went. So, strictly speaking, where is "China"? And
who are "the Chinese people"? "China" in the truest sense doesn't exist.

"But now it exists, right? Because it, too, is now called a
country, and there are no longer dynasties." Actually, it still doesn't
exist, because when the last scene was to be performed, when the Fa was to
be taught, the sentient beings all over the world who had formed a karmic
relationship with me, the people who were most likely to obtain the Fa and
those who would play a negative role when Dafa spread widely, all
reincarnated back in China. Whether it's the ones who came to obtain the
Fa or those who came to do damage, they all came for this Fa, were born
for the Fa, and were formed for the Fa--everyone is in place. That's why
the people in China today are the most eclectic; it's because the positive
and negative beings from around the world who came for the Fa-rectification
period have gathered there. But regardless of whether a being came to play
a positive or negative role, since the Fa-rectification doesn't
acknowledge the old forces' arrangements, as long as a being can look at
and handle the Fa-rectification correctly, there's still hope that he
won't be weeded out. And if he can obtain the Fa, I will save him. There's
something I've mentioned to you before. I asked, do you know why democracy
appeared in the world? The fundamental reason is that the Kings of those
ethnicities, who came from those cosmic bodies, have all reincarnated in
China, so who in those other regions could declare himself a King? In the
end, those high-level old force beings decided, "Let's have those humans
elect their leaders themselves." When someone is elected he can't be
called a King. "So let's call him a president." Anyway, even after he
becomes their leader he still can't be treated like a King; when he
becomes bad, people can say bad things about him, and if he becomes even
worse he can be impeached, and someone else will be elected. This is the
real reason why those beings up there arranged democracy. There are other
factors, too. What manifests at this human place also includes principles
of the human level. Humans have no idea what's going on. So even though
the people in China don't look especially striking--which is due to the
large amount of karma in recent times--although this skin is no longer
that pretty, the substance inside is significant. Think about how scary it
will be if the sentient beings there are destroyed. Whether it be those
that they represent, or the dimensions and sentient beings that they
correspond to themselves, they're all major groups of beings.

Having talked about these things, I'll talk about something else. I
just mentioned that this Earth's history has only been 100 million years
long. Basically, the 100 million years on this Earth is divided into two
major periods, with 50 million years in each period. The first 50 million
years was the period in which giants, dwarves, and medium-sized people
coexisted. The giants had an average height of five meters; the
medium-sized people were the same as us modern people, with an average
height of less than two meters; and dwarves were only a few inches tall.
When Gods created people, why did they simultaneously create these three
types? It was to test out which of these three types of people would be
suited to live on Earth until the final stage and be suited to obtain the
Fa. During those 50 million years, man's ability to understand the world
was constantly being shaped, while at the same time it was being
determined which type of person would be kept. At the end it was found
that the giants weren't suitable. Since they had large bodies, distances
were shortened for them, in terms of their relation to the Earth. They
also shortened time, relatively speaking, because giants' consumption of
material resources was not proportionate to the Earth. Later on it was
found that dwarves also weren't proportionate--forests were everywhere on
the Earth, and it was hard for them to clear trees. At that time there was
no cleared land, and it would have been hard for them to establish a
civilization such as today's. Meanwhile, time on Earth seemed to be too
long for dwarves, and distances were too great; crossing oceans would have
proved far too difficult for dwarves. So they weren't suitable. The giants
and dwarves were then weeded out. They weren't weeded out right away--50
million years passed before they started to be gradually weeded out from
history. It was two centuries ago that giants finally disappeared from our
sight; in other words, it was just over two hundred years ago that giants
finally vanished from sight. Dwarves, meanwhile, were still sighted just
seventy or eighty years ago. Only in recent times did they become extinct,
and it's not that they're completely gone--some went to other dimensions,
and some went into the earth. They know that they are people who've been
weeded out, so they don't make contact with modern people.

Now that we're on this topic, I'll unveil two mysteries of the past.
Mankind can't explain how the pyramids were built. How didpeople
transport such huge stones? For several human beings who are five meters
tall, moving them is no different from today's man moving a big rock.
Constructing those pyramids, for the five-meter-tall people, was the same
as us constructing a building today. Another mystery is, why were there
large animals like dinosaurs? The truth is, they were prepared for the
giants. There's no difference between the way a five-meter-tall person
looks at large animals like dinosaurs and the way our people today look at
cows. Different species needed to be prepared for different humans.
Everything on the Earth was created for man, formed for man. I can also
tell you, while I'm at it, that animals absolutely cannot be equated with
humans--you absolutely cannot think of them as the same. You can have
mercy for them and you can care for them, but you absolutely cannot treat
them like human beings. Man was created by Gods; to compare animals to
humans is the same as insulting man and blaspheming Gods. The truth of
history will soon be shown to people, and at that time mankind will have
the true, right concepts of the cosmos, life, and matter. Today when some
people do archaeological work they go and stick human bones onto
dinosaurs, and with regard to the building of the pyramids, people also
use the existing, narrow understandings to think about it and make
deductions. The truth is, many understandings science has about this
immediate physical world are wrong, and even their starting point is
wrong. Even the theory of gravity is wrong. I'll tell people about these
things when there's an opportunity.

I just lifted the veil covering man's history. (Applause) It
wasn't to discuss history, because mankind was created and formed for Dafa.
So I was teaching you the Fa while telling you this history, as all of
this is related to the Fa. Many things are really important for Dafa
disciples, especially since these things and everything that you're now
doing are all interwoven with your responsibilities to Dafa, and since
they include Dafa disciples' own profound and critical factors. I'm
explaining this in hopes that from this point on you'll do even better in
the Fa-rectification. You've got to try hard, and you've got to do well,
because what you want is to consummate everything, and you have
responsibilities--you have come with the mission and responsibility of
saving sentient beings. Throughout history people have declared that they
would save sentient beings. But who knew the true meaning of saving
sentient beings? You are truly saving sentient beings, and only you
are worthy of doing something this magnificent. Make sure you don't lose
this opportunity!

I think I won't say much more. Next, if any of you still have questions
that you need to ask, that you think are important, you can ask them, and
I'll use the time we have to answer them for you. As for the specific
things in your work, your life, or your cultivation, those are factors and
conditions that allow you to improve in your personal cultivation, they
are what you need to enlighten to and tests that you need to pass
yourself. I think I should let you get the mighty virtue you'll
have from enlightening on your own. If I answer them for you it won't be
yours.

Question: When sending forth righteous thoughts, do the
formulas and the hand positions correspond to one another in a specific
way?

Teacher: No, it's up to you which of the two hand
positions you use with which of the two formulas.

Question: During the Fa-rectification [some people]
listen to what's said by the students whose Third Eyes are open, instead
of using the Fa to evaluate everything.

Teacher: At all times, whether you are doing things as a group or are
validating the Fa as an individual, everything has to be centered on Dafa,
everything has to be evaluated using the Fa, and you absolutely cannot go
by whatever someone can see with his Third Eye. This is because although
most of what disciples see is true, it's only one piece of the whole
picture, and at the same time, it's limited to their levels, and
occasionally it's a false vision that results from their attachments. Let
me tell you that in this cosmos, no matter how high a God is, this cosmos
is still a mystery to him, and he's still a being that needs to be saved
during the Fa-rectification of the cosmos. What he can see and know are
only the things at the levels he is at, rather than the true situation of
the entire cosmos, and even less is it the real, final and true picture of
what Dafa disciples need to do in the Fa-rectification. Regardless of what
you see those Gods doing or what you hear them saying, don't believe it.
Just do things according to Dafa and Master's requirements. You must do
everything righteously--this is extremely important, and extremely
magnificent! You can't take what someone sees as your guide.

When you are doing things with other Dafa disciples, it's inevitable
that you have arguments, and it's inevitable that you have differences of
opinion. Why? Your attachments have to somehow be displayed so that you
can get rid of them. But if you refuse to give ground after arguing for a
long time, then it's a problem, and it's because you didn't look within
and you didn't look at your own problem. You all want to be responsible to
Dafa, and your intentions are good. But often you don't mind yourselves,
and it's very possible you have some ordinary human attachments. Make sure
you pay attention to these things.

Having reached this stage in Fa-rectification today, Dafa disciples,
Master affirms everything you've been doing during the Fa-rectification.
By July 20th of 1999 I had already pushed all of the pre-July
20 students to their positions--I pushed you to your highest positions.
I've told you before that your changes start from the utmost microcosm and
original nature. Some students felt, "I'm cultivating so rapidly." You all
felt like that back then. The process of your Consummation and your final
elevation in cultivation were both for the purpose of your validating the
Fa later on. So if you are someone who studied the Fa well in the period
of personal cultivation, you will be doing well validating the Fa and
saving sentient beings amidst the persecution; and your body at the
surface will be continually assimilating to high levels in the Fa-rectification,
and what's left at your human surface will become less and less. But as
for those who haven't done well, who have gone to the opposite side, or
who don't step forward, we can see that their bodies on their godly-side
are dissolving down layer by layer. Of course, this undertaking hasn't
been completed yet, Fa-rectification hasn't been concluded, so there's
still a chance for you to do well again. Indeed, as long as there's still
one day when the persecution hasn't ended, that day is an opportunity. Use
it well, do better, come back sooner, and don't miss any more
opportunities. Don't dwell on your past mistakes--if you've made mistakes,
then do well from now on. Don't think about the things that have happened.
Think about how to do well from now on, and become truly responsible to
yourself and to sentient beings.

I'd like to mention another thing. When some of our students have
differences of opinion in their work, they like to call my family members
and ask their opinions. Let me tell you that my family members are
cultivators, too, and they, too, can't necessarily judge things correctly
all the time. They, too, might do the wrong thing or say the wrong
thing--what they say isn't Fa. Don't do that kind of thing anymore. Don't
push away your opportunities to establish your own mighty virtue and to
improve yourselves in cultivation. During the Fa-rectification each person
is walking his own path, and this is the history each Dafa disciple
creates.

That's all I'll say. Next, if you have more questions, you can ask
them.

Question: Why does Master often have little disciples do things in the
heavens?

Teacher: It's because they don't have the postnatally formed notions
that adults have, their nature is purer, and the energy they send out
isn't affected by everyday people's thoughts. From another perspective,
the extent of a person's abilities isn't restricted by his age as an
everyday person.

Question: How can we help people obtain Dafa in the environment of Hong
Kong, where people are obsessed with money and material wealth?

Teacher: You are Dafa disciples, and you are saving the sentient beings
poisoned by the evil's lies. As long as a person isn't against Dafa, he
can make it through the danger of being weeded out when the Fa rectifies
the human world. As for those beings who haven't tried to damage the Fa
but that aren't good, or not so good, right now we don't do anything about
them. The reason is, in the next stage there will still be people who do
cultivation practice, and the sentient beings in the next stage will still
need to position themselves while the Fa rectifies the human world. Right
now the focus of our salvation is on those people whose minds have been
poisoned by the evil's lies. Those extremely evil beings that are
eliminated as we save sentient beings are only targeted because they
damage the Fa. There are many other beings who are at the same level as
them but who haven't tried to damage the Fa, and who haven't taken part in
this affair--do nothing about them. Why? The next stage of Fa-rectification
is also going to be an opportunity for those who haven't tried to damage
the Fa. And at the same time, the people of the next stage will still need
to cultivate themselves. These things are part of the next stage.

What Dafa disciples are to do today is be responsible to Dafa. Don't
touch the things in everyday people's society. When you clarify the truth
don't say high-level things; the main thing isn't to have people
understand what the high-level, profound Fa is. Well, people who are
particularly good are an exception, and you can tell them about it. But
when you clarify the truth to an average person, just tell him that we're
being persecuted and that we're only doing exercises and trying to be good
people, and they'll be able to understand. After they learn about the
truth, people will see all the propaganda for what it is, lies, and
they'll naturally see how despicable and evil it is. After people become
aware they will be indignant: "How can a government act like a bunch of
hoodlums? You've been persecuted so badly, and you're persecuted just for
trying to be good people." Just use the simplest ideas when you talk to
people. Not only will they be able to accept it and understand it, but
they'll also be less apt to misunderstand. You've cultivated for such a
long time now, and your understanding of the Fa is quite deep. If you talk
about your high-level understanding of the Fa, it will be hard for
everyday people to understand, and it's likely they will misunderstand;
you have come to the high-level understanding you have today only after a
long process of cultivation. You want people to immediately understand
things at a level that high, but they won't be able to, so don't talk to
them at too high a level. Even when you clarify the truth to religious
people you shouldn't talk at a high level. Just talk about the persecution
we've suffered. If they don't want to hear about other spiritual beliefs,
we don't talk to them about spiritual beliefs; tell them that we're just
doing exercises. It's hard to save people nowadays. You have to explain
things to them by following the logic of their attachments. For the sake
of saving them, don't create any obstacles for them.

Question: I'm a disciple who only obtained the Fa several months ago.
How am I different from those disciples who obtained the Fa before July 20th
of 1999?

Teacher: The old forces also arranged it that some Dafa disciples would
enter Dafa during the persecution. They think that if someone enters while
the persecution is so severe, his mighty virtue shoots right up. But there
are also some people who are part of the next group to reach Consummation
and who aren't included in this, so right now it's hard to say exactly who
is in which situation. No matter what, though, to have obtained Dafa is
the most fortunate of the most fortunate things, so you have to make good
use of this period of time, bring yourself to truly cultivate and truly
obtain the Fa, and ascend in cultivation. Not everybody can obtain the Fa,
and not everybody can enter, because this is the Great Fa of the cosmos.
Back when I was teaching Dafa, why were the old forces dead set on
limiting the number of people who would obtain the Fa during the first
round to 100 million? Even these 100 million people are the result of my
insistence. At the time, the number they limited it to was 70 million,
while I wanted 200 million people. They knew that if 200 million people
were to obtain the Fa during the first round they wouldn't be able to make
this evil so-called "test" happen, so they were dead set on limiting it to
100 million. A large group of these people had just obtained the Fa when
they couldn't wait anymore to begin the so-called tribulation. That was
unfair to those people. Those of you who obtained the Fa recently, I
haven't told you which category you belong to. You shouldn't think about
this, either. Just do what you're supposed to do.

Question: Hello, Master. I'd like to ask a question, namely, in one of
your new articles you talk about "renewing the three domains." Your
disciple doesn't understand it. Would Master please explain.

Teacher: Actually, people your age should know. Those who were educated
by private tutoring in the past or who went to school before 1950 all
studied the Three Character Classic in their schooling. In the
Three Character Classic, and in Chinese culture, there has always been
the concept of the three domains. It's also mentioned in Daoist thought a
lot. The "three domains" actually refers to the Heavens, Earth, and Man.
"Renewing the three domains" refers to [ushering in] the New Heavens, the
New Earth, and the New Man.

Question: Hello, Master. I'd like to ask a question. Confucian thinking
runs through each of China's dynasties. So I'd like to ask what the
relationship is between Confucian thinking and the spreading of Dafa in
China.

Teacher: Confucianism, as I just talked about, was merely laying a
foundation for man's thinking--that's all. It has allowed people to know
what the golden mean is and the specific things that human beings should
believe in and follow, such as benevolence, yi, propriety,
learning, and trustworthiness, and that's pretty much the extent of it.
The culture in each of mankind's periods was laying a foundation for the
thinking that humans should have when they obtain the Fa, allowing them,
in the end, to comprehend the Fa and understand the Fa when they obtain
the Fa.

Question: Nowadays we're doing a lot of Dafa work and our time is very
tight. I find it hard to guarantee two hours of exercise each day. I
wonder if it's alright to exercise less?

Teacher: Dafa disciples, Master has said that you've been working
hard--you have truly been working hard. I don't have the heart to
specifically tell you anymore to do something. I know that many people are
taking the initiative to shoulder a lot of things, are even sleeping
little every day, and they also have to go to work--it really is hard. But
no matter how hard it is, I think you should still find time to study the
Fa and do the exercises. I think that a cultivator can't go without doing
the exercises. Although doing the exercises is only supplemental to your
improvement, it, too, is part of the Fa, and it's connected to all the
changes in your body. Of course, if you have too many things to do and
you're too busy, and you exercise less, or you don't exercise at all for a
few days, it's alright to make it up later on. If you're truly very busy
and you truly have very little time to do the exercises, Master has ways
to do that for you, too. But I would think that your being a little busy
and your enduring a little hardship is your Dafa disciple's mighty virtue.
In the future when you look back, you'll find it remarkable!

Question: How were the highest beings in the cosmos created?

Teacher: In the future I'll teach you the highest Fa. I'll talk about
how the cosmos came into being, and this question will then be discussed.
It's still a bit early now to talk about it.

Question: When I studied the Fa, I read about how the people in the
heavens go through transmigration every five hundred years and those on
Earth go through transmigration every one hundred years. What's this
about?

Teacher: The Three Realms is the lowest realm in the cosmos. The Three
Realms is divided into three major levels, so it's called the Three
Realms. Within each level there are three levels of great heavens, so
there are a total of nine levels of heavens. And these nine levels of
heavens are divided into many smaller heavens, so some people call them
the thirty-three levels of heavens, but actually there are more. All
beings in this scope go through transmigration, whereas beings outside of
the Three Realms don't. The beings in the Three Realms have a relatively
short lifespan in each life: the people on Earth only live for several
decades; the beings at one level higher can live for one to two hundred
years; the ones at one more level higher can live for two to three hundred
years; the ones at another level higher can live for three to four hundred
years; and those at the highest level can live for around a thousand
years. But no matter how many years it is, they eventually have to drop
down and go through transmigration again. Once a being goes beyond the
Three Realms he no longer goes through transmigration.

Question: When there are revisions to Dafa books, which version should
we go by?

Teacher: When we find incorrect words it's necessary to make revisions.
With Master here, the Fa cannot be sabotaged. For the Chinese books, go by
what was recently published in Taiwan.

Question: I think the current school system is deviating more and more
from Zhen, Shan, Ren. It's as if they're teaching children to be robots,
indulging them, not teaching them the principles and ideas of how to
conduct oneself, not stressing virtue, and they don't teach goodness (shan)
or forbearance (ren). So I don't want to send my child to school. I want
to keep him at home and teach him myself. Am I being too extreme? I hope
that in the future there will be Dafa schools.

Teacher: At present, when I teach the Fa I also incorporate today's
science, since mankind is already how it is. Although nowadays the
education given in schools can't teach children to be good and it indulges
children's thinking, the knowledge that's available can still help them in
understanding the Fa later on. Of course, it's better to have schools run
by Dafa disciples, but until we have them I think it's better to let him
acquire some knowledge. And then when he comes home you can read Zhuan
Falun to him and teach him how to conduct himself. This is all you can
do at present. The transition period will be short.

Question: Why is it that there have been many revisions to the words in
the new articles?

Teacher: I informed them over the phone of the six articles that were
recently published; I dictated and had the Minghui Website transcribe
them, so there were errors. Usually, after I tell Minghui to publish an
article I don't check it again, and only when some people notice something
and ask me about it do I then take a look. This mainly happened because I
was busy and didn't have time to check.

Question: I'm from Korea. My understanding is that everyone is equal
under Dafa. But many new students have cultural differences. Would you
please talk a little bit about this.

Teacher: Actually, when Zhuan Falun is translated into different
languages it doesn't affect your understanding of the Fa at the surface
level. During the course of cultivation, in particular, the inner meaning
of the Fa doesn't manifest in the surface words. As you continually read
the book you'll find that you continually have new understandings of the
Fa-principles, and you'll see ever more Fa-principles. This is in fact the
Fa bringing out your wisdom. So, your improvement isn't affected. In
Mainland China a lot of older people who were illiterate learned how to
read through studying the Fa, and their improvement wasn't affected,
either.

Question: Some new students have cultural barriers and are unable to
understand the Fa.

Teacher: New students can come to understand a little bit at a time.
Don't tell them things that are too high-level. Just talk about what's on
the surface, like how to improve your xinxing and how to get well
and stay healthy. Over time they'll come to their own realizations by
reading the book more.

Question: Many Westerners have come to learn the exercises from us,
including people of different age groups. Can we make a set of exercise
music tapes that are similar to the Fa-lecture tapes, in that they keep
Master's instructions but add English translation?

Teacher: Yes, you may. But don't translate the formulas. Formulas are
what everyday people refer to as incantations. The sound and manifestation
of each character has a corresponding effect in specific cosmic bodies.
Once it's translated the correct sounds and internal factors are lost.

Question: I want to ask about something. I think it's a fairly common
thing, namely, I think that many Dafa disciples feel quite good when they
go out to spread the Fa and find it very easy to communicate with other
people. But their tribulations at home seem to be pretty big. For example,
some persons' spouses don't really understand them. Take my parents for
example: they have a certain amount of social status in China, so they
find themselves under a lot of pressure. I think that many Dafa disciples'
relatives in China think that Falun Gong is good, but they're afraid that
we might run into danger outside of China. But I think that these
relatives of Dafa disciples have also endured some things. I'd like to
know what will become of them when the Fa rectifies the human world?

Teacher: This attachment has to be let go of. The Fa is evaluating the
actions of all sentient beings at this time. If someone hasn't done damage
to the Fa then there's no problem. But if someone has bad thoughts about
Dafa, then from the perspective of saving all sentient beings, you should
first explain things to your family members; you should try your best to
explain things to them and help them get rid of those thoughts.

Question: After this Fa conference there will be a performance and some
everyday people will attend. Can we sing songs from the human society that
are fairly righteous?

Teacher: Everyday people can come to listen to our performances--we're
saving all beings. They're allowed to come listen to even our Fa
conferences. The talks given by students during the Fa conferences are
beneficial to them. So this isn't a problem. As to whether everyday
people's songs can be sung in our Dafa's grand halls, the answer is no. (Applause)
Why not? If you're participating in a performance in the ordinary
society--that is, if it's Dafa disciples participating in an
everyday-people sort of performance--as long as the song isn't in bad
taste and it's not at all political, then it doesn't matter. But if it's
entirely our own Dafa concert, I think we should make it more pure and
righteous. When it's not organized by our Dafa it doesn't matter. You must
make a clear distinction. You asked if it's okay when the song is
righteous. Right now it's hard for you to know whether the song's composer
has taken part in persecuting Dafa. How do you know he hasn't written
songs that persecute Dafa in China? You can't judge this at present. If
the composer is a Dafa disciple and the song itself isn't in any way
political, then it's fine. But at present it's hard to gauge these things.

Question: If students in Mainland China go out to spread the Fa,
they'll surely be arrested. But if they don't spread the Fa, they're
afraid that it will affect their levels in the course of Fa-rectification.
How should disciples in Mainland China handle this?

Teacher: Neither of these two kinds of thinking is right. If a person
doesn't go out to spread the Fa, he's afraid that it will affect his
level, he's afraid that it will affect his improvement, and he's afraid
that it will affect his Consummation. He's afraid of this, he's afraid of
that--instead of truly looking at things as a Dafa disciple. Dafa
disciples absolutely should validate the Fa, and they should save sentient
beings. It's precisely because of these ordinary human attachments that
problems are apt to occur--that's why a lot of problems have occurred.

I'm fully aware of the situation in China--I'm perfectly aware. If a
Dafa disciple doesn't validate the Fa, I don't think that's right. I can't
put things too specifically. A lot of things are the old forces'
arrangements. What's more, they arranged them in great detail, and the
manifestations are extremely complex. The situation in Mainland China
seems chaotic, when it's actually very well-ordered.

There are two circumstances in which they can't touch a Dafa disciple.
One is that he is rock-solid. They don't dare touch him, because they know
at that time that if this disciple has taken a righteous path and
conducted himself well and someone still dares to persecute him, it
doesn't matter that they're the old forces or what the old principles
are--I absolutely won't spare them. There are countless righteous Gods by
my side, too! And I also have countless Law Bodies who do Fa-rectification.
My only concern is that Dafa disciples themselves won't be firm inside;
when there's some kind of attachment, some kind of fear, or what not, then
the old forces see it and take advantage of the omissions and persecute
them. And if a person's righteous thoughts aren't sufficient while he's
being persecuted, he will be persecuted even worse. This is always the
case. Also, the vast majority of these students are ones who hadn't
directly established a karmic relationship with me in history. This time
while the Fa is being spread the door is wide open, and the old forces
weren't able to stop them from entering. But the vast majority of these
students haveconducted themselves well. They don't dare to
persecute too badly those who established a karmic relationship in
history, because those students have suffered like this before in history.
If every Dafa disciple--regardless of which category he belongs to--had
been able to do well, this persecution would have ended long ago. Speaking
of being able to do well, it's easier said than done--it's not like I tell
everybody that they have to do so and then they're able to do so. It comes
from having built a solid foundation in cultivation, and it's built
through studying the Fa for a long time. Actually, the vast majority of us
have conducted ourselves really well. Those who haven't done well are from
the third group of students. And because they haven't done well, the
persecution has become even more severe, making Dafa's situation seem as
if it's being persecuted extremely dangerously and viciously. Actually, no
matter which group a person belongs to, Master treats everybody the same.
When we talk about putting aside the thought of life and death outside of
Mainland China, it's absolutely different from when the students in that
kind of environment, under that kind of pressure, and in that kind of
situation talk about putting aside the thought of life and death. I don't
want to say too much more about these things. If in that environment they
can truly put aside the thought of life and death, though, the situation
will be different. For example, after some Dafa disciples are arrested,
they are able to maintain an unshakable calm, and they have no fear.
You'll see that the old forces don't dare to persecute them. It's because
they know that unless they beat them to death, any persecution of them
won't do a thing, so they don't touch them. How many students can do this?
Their being so steadfast in Dafa terrifies the evil. By contrast, those
whose human attachments are too strong and who haven't studied the Fa in
depth have brought a lot of suffering to themselves that they shouldn't
have experienced. Some of them have written so-called "repentance
statements" or have signed some things. Since I don't acknowledge this
persecution, I'll give them more chances before this undertaking
concludes. I have seen from most students' actions that they have, after
being persecuted, come to understand with greater composure and
rationality the seriousness of Dafa and cultivation. At the same time,
they see the seriousness of this persecution more clearly, and they no
longer do things with so much human attachment, as they did before.
They've gradually let go of these attachments, so the things they do are
more and more pure and righteous, and better and better. They have become
more and more steadfast, and more rational. Don't just look at the
persecution's surface. When the Fa rectifies the human world all of the
truth will unfold before people's eyes. The Dafa disciples in Mainland
China are indeed remarkable.

Question: I have two questions to ask. One is that the family and
friends of some Dafa disciples outside of China used to practice, but
after the persecution began they gradually gave it up. They want to know
what they should do now. Another question is that some disciples who are
very diligent sometimes still experience what appears to be fairly serious
sickness karma. They'd like to know whether it's their own karma or the
evil doing damage. How should they handle this?

Teacher: As for the first question, what they want to do is up to
them--it really depends on them. As for the second question, when you
encounter something look at yourself first--this is the greatest trait
that sets Dafa disciples apart from everyday people. If we truly don't
have any problems on our part, then it must be the evil's persecution of
Dafa disciples. During this Fa-rectification period, in particular, Dafa
disciples' karma is no longer an issue. You must consciously and clearly
recognize the evil beings' persecution. They're truly doing bad things.
It's best that Dafa disciples walk their own paths righteously and not
allow the evil to seize any excuse to persecute you.

Question: May I imagine a little bit what the new cosmos is like?

Teacher: Mankind will undergo changes, too. So the cosmos is undergoing
changes, all the way down to mankind. The new cosmos is perfecting all
kinds of elements where the old cosmos is imperfect. The new cosmos is
more complete, and this is something that couldn't be resolved at all in
the past without using the form of Fa-rectification. In the past, whenever
a cycle of the cosmos was no longer good enough, it would disintegrate, be
re-created, and start to develop again; and when it became bad it would
just be re-created. Fa-rectification is happening for the first time ever
in the colossal firmament since the beginning of time. So I've used the
opportunity of this Fa-rectification to change many things. I can't talk
about these things. But I can tell you that since mankind is a part of the
cosmos and since Dafa has been spread here... In the past there was no
human race here; no matter how many Earths have been re-constructed after
disintegrating, the main beings here always had the appearance of alien
beings. Their outward appearances were very different each time, but none
of them had the outward appearance and the internal systems of human
beings, let alone the human mind. But today's human beings were created
for the spreading of Dafa. So after those people who have sinned against
Dafa are eliminated, the people who remain will have blessings. So in the
future the people on Earth will really have the appearance of humans. In
other words, the future human race will truly begin in the next stage. The
life-form this time was created for spreading Dafa. In the future there
will still be Buddhas, Daos, and Gods coming down to the earth to save
people, sentient beings will still be able to listen to the Fa, and
sentient beings will again be saved. But things like a God coming to save
people and getting crucified will never happen again.

Question: I want to ask about this: sometimes when we clarify the truth
some historical figures come up. Because we don't know about the many
karmic relationships, should we be more careful with certain things?

Teacher: During the Fa-rectification, you're just validating the Fa
with the human languages and with the points that can be commonly
understood by mankind. Just do it according to what mankind can recognize
these days as good and bad, or right and wrong. Whoever in history you
mention isn't a problem.

Question: I'd just like to give a few examples of what you just said
about the situation of the Mainland students being quite good. From what I
gather, almost all of my relatives and friends who I've come into contact
with are really steadfast. Some of them went to Tiananmen in an open and
dignified manner. They left in the morning and came back in the evening;
they got on a plane in the morning and took a plane back in the evening.
They not only shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" but also held up banners, and
nothing happened to them. Also, there's an elderly person who is
ninety-some years old and goes out to spread the Fa every day, and nothing
has happened to him. Anyway, they're all very steadfast. Only one person I
know has been arrested, but he's conducted himself quite well. Through
talking with them I can sense that the situation is excellent. They told
me, "It's good, we're doing great." After I heard that I felt good.

Teacher: That's the situation now. It's because there are no longer
that many evil beings for the old forces to use. And the second they see
Dafa disciples sending righteous thoughts they flee. When you go to the
Chinese consulates to make appeals, the consulates seem really scared.
It's not actually the human beings who are afraid, but those evil ones
that manipulate human beings. When it manifests over here in this human
dimension, they appear to be really scared, when in fact it's the evil
factors that are afraid. If the evil is completely eliminated, and if at
that time even the people in the consulates come out to learn Falun Gong
from us, it would be just too terrifying for that chief political
scoundrel in China. That's why the evil beings are trying so hard to
control those who work in the consulates, and to keep up everything that
the evil has been doing. But despite this, they can't keep it up anymore.
In China, other than the city where the head of the evil resides, in other
areas the evil no longer controls the whole area. The evil beings have
been eliminated so much that not many are left, and the situations in
large areas are becoming better. If you send forth righteous thoughts at
the head of the evil from nearby it, the evil won't keep replenishing and
protecting it fast enough, and that creature will take his last breath.
The reason is, it has none of its human things left, and its skin is
entirely sustained by the evil beings--sending righteous thoughts
eliminates them. If that replenishing can't be kept up it will drop dead.
Last time when the students sent forth righteous thoughts nearby it in
Malta, it almost collapsed. That's how it is. It no longer has anything
human in it. Now it has lost its senses and doesn't have normal human
thoughts. It is alive for us. Its human reasoning is getting less and less
rational. Actually, the staff members of the consulates in some regions
have already started to come out and make contact with our students, some
have already taken our materials quietly, and have said to us in private,
"Good job!" (Applause) This wasn't possible before. Why has this
happened? After the evil that was controlling people was eliminated,
people began to calmly think. They're now reflecting on their own: "Just
what exactly is Falun Gong about? Why have they been persecuting Falun
Gong like that?" And they have recognized the evil's persecution and all
the lies that have been exposed. People are shocked, and now they're
actively trying to learn the truth.

Question: I have two questions. We work on the FGM television programs.
A while back, we received feedback from some viewers saying that our news
program seemed too stiff.

Teacher: Actually, I think that the tone of your program is quite good.
(Applause) It doesn't have the feel of class struggles,it's fairly neutral. If the tone is too soft, though, that isn't
good either. In fact, I've told the TV and radio stations in many regions
that the tone of the Los Angeles students in their broadcasts is quite
appropriate--it's not too stiff and it's not too soft, it's pretty
moderate. Of course, that wasn't to praise you--don't get bigheaded. What
I'm saying is that we should do our best to make it more moderate. That
would be better. Everyday people say all kinds of things, and it's hard to
make something suit all tastes; some people like spicy things, some people
like sour things, and some people like sweet things. We should just
project a moderate image, just do it that way. Of course, you can be a
little more natural and a little more relaxed. When you're in front of the
camera you are an actor, so you might consider improving your appearance a
little.

Question: I have another question. In addition to making Dafa programs,
we're also making some everyday-people type programs that don't have any
Dafa content in them. How do we properly balance this? How much time
should we use to produce Dafa programs? And how many non-Dafa programs
should we air?

Teacher: It's up to you how you arrange this, it's up to you how you
handle the specifics. Just do whatever you feel is appropriate after you
discuss with each other. The truth is, in your validating the Fa today, in
the process of Dafa disciples' clarifying the truth, the forms you have
adopted, the different methods you've used, and all the different things
you've done have all been handled very well. Don't underestimate your
sending even one flyer or one booklet to China, making one phone call
there, or sending one fax there or sending all sorts of information--the
effect is quite significant, and its effect in frightening and eliminating
the evil is huge, truly huge. It's because of the evil's slanderous
propaganda that people have bad thoughts in their minds. When people
become clearheaded, that's when those evil things are eliminated and
disintegrate. If a person really represents a gigantic cosmic body, his
turning-around means that numerous sentient beings are saved--the impact
is enormous! Truly, all of these things are being done really well. Don't
underestimate these things. Of course, as for how to do things
specifically, you need to gauge for yourself what's appropriate and how to
make it acceptable to people. If a form of media is to be in the format of
those in the ordinary human society, it has to be made acceptable to
everyday people. If it has nothing but articles that expose the
persecution, it actually won't have the best results in exposing the evil
and saving sentient beings, because the target audience is not
cultivators, after all. So we should make these programs more diverse and
more interesting to people so that they'll want to watch them. And then
also round things out with Dafa programs. Done this way it'll have a
greater impact on everyday people. It won't work if it doesn't have any
everyday-people type of contents, since you are trying to make it like
those in ordinary human society. Then as for how much of them to include,
you need to use your own judgment; the amount has to be appropriate.

Question: Greetings to Master from the disciples in Master's hometown,
Changchun! When can you go back to see them?

Teacher: I don't think it will be long now. Dynasty after dynasty in
China, every dynasty's emperor was called, "one who lives ten thousand
years." But none of them could live that long. Every dynasty wanted to
make its state power unshakeable, but they were, after all, not
unshakeable. We don't have any desire to overthrow the regime in China, we
don't have that sort of political aspiration. We are being persecuted
without justification. We just expose the evil gang of scoundrels that
persecutes us. Many people in the Chinese government are actually against
this persecution. It's just that under this intense pressure they don't
dare say anything. But what people do is determining their future. Dafa is
evaluating all people. I'll say it one more time: the human society was
created for Dafa, and throughout history, anything that had nothing to do
with Dafa absolutely wouldn't have taken place. It was the head of the
evil that started that talk about "the Communist Party has to defeat Falun
Gong." Why does the Communist Party want to defeat Falun Gong? People all
around the world find this strange--"The Communist Party controls China's
entire army, police force, and government. Why would it want to defeat a
group of unarmed folks who are under its rule and who only want to be good
people? How irrational!" In fact, as Dafa was spreading widely people's
hearts were becoming good, and social stability was improving. Who does
that benefit? Whoever's in power, right? Isn't it totally irrational?
We're not interested in political power. Actually, before the persecution
started, family members of all seven members of the Standing Committee of
the Politburo of the CCP Central Committee were
practicing Falun Gong, and all seven members of the Standing Committee had
read the book. They knew full well what Falun Gong is about. Jealousy that
developed in political struggles has bred those things whereby people
attack each other, and it has made it lose its senses and be unable to
tolerate anything. Its breadth of mind is incredibly small, while its
desires are incredibly large; its courage is incredibly small, while its
jealousy is incredibly large. It knows nothing about governing a country,
and its ability to do real things is less than that of the head of a small
division in a local business. When it gets irrational it's no different
than a demon. On top of all that, its Primordial Spirit is a toad. It's
hard to find someone like that! In this human world's play, where can you
find an actor like this? It took a long time of searching throughout
history to find it! (Applause) The old forces don't want to let it
go down to hell immediately, and they say this is because they'll never be
able to find a character like it again.

(Translators' Note: The translation is subject to further
improvement so as to be closer to the original text. Last updated: October 22,
2005. Practitioners' feedback regarding translation can be sent to
trteam@fldf.net.)